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State Any Objective of Financial Statement Analysis’. - Accountancy

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State any objective of Financial Statement Analysis’.

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An important objective of Financial Statement Analysis is that it helps to conduct meaningful comparisons of financial data. It also provides better and easy understanding of the changes in the financial data over a period of time.

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2012-2013 (March) Delhi Set 1

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